Spaceflight News

-- BepiColombo insertion delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (esa.int)

Short & Sweet

-- EscaPADE DelAYED (spacenews.com)

-- Starliner Returned (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

-- Vega’s final launch (satellitetoday.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Blue Origin’s new drone ship (HT DennisO: https://x.com/_mgde_) (space.com)

-- Haragopal: Europa Clipper’s flying on Falcon Heavy, not New Glenn (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 10 Sept, 2009: The launch of HTV-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (humans-in-space.jaxa.jp) (PDF: nasa.gov)

-- Next week (9/17 - 9/23) in 2006: Flying to where the Sun never rises